DevOps Python Engineer

Permanent
Full-time
Wimbledon

Competitive 

Oleeo is seeking an experienced Python Engineer to join our Technology department as part of our expanding Data Science team. This is an exciting new role working with Data Science and software engineering to successfully transition new features and products into production. In Oleeo we are passionate about development processes  that are designed, implemented and managed by developers for developers. This role presents a real opportunity for you to make a difference and to have your work valued. 

The successful applicant will get to make a significant contribution and the opportunity to work on a number of projects including - high availability python services, software and data engineering, devops and data science that will deliver positive business improvements with a global reach to our high profile customers. You will be expected to act as a trusted advisor to the technical team to support evolving Oleeo’s software and data engineering practices.

The ideal candidate will be familiar with established programming and engineering practices and processes, and be able to advise other members of the team on these. You will be building fast, flexible APIs and data processing to support them. You will also be aware of suitable processes for deploying and releasing python code with high availability and suitable architecture for maintaining and hosting it. Part of this will require building libraries, services and tools that help the speed of delivery to our users.

You will also help design, implement and maintain a CI/CD pipeline to enable us to take forward our ambitious programme of work for Data Science driven products and features. 

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build new services and areas of functionality driven by Data Science based on both internal and customer requirements

  • Write python code, services and APIs that are elegant, robust, secure, performant and easy to maintain

  • Ensure your code is written and maintained to a high standard with high availability and reliability to the end user

  • Expand and optimise data and data pipeline architecture as well as optimise how data flows through the system

  • Improve existing data flows and services

  • Provide advice and recommendations on processes and architecture to the software development and Data Science teams and contribute toward their ongoing maintenance and development

  • Produce documentation, estimates, design and functional specifications for use by internal teams

  • Work within the Technical and Data Science teams and working closely with the Product Lead, Data Engineering Lead and Data Science team members and provide training as and when needed.

  • Fix internal and client-submitted defects

  • Significant professional experience as a software engineer, data engineer or similar

  • A trusted expert in all things Python, SQL and Git

  • Advanced knowledge of Linux 

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Proven experience changing what’s possible for an engineering team to accomplish

  • Experience of Devops and its application to both software development and Data Science ensuring high availability services for the end user

  • Independent problem solver with the ability to lead and advise on the best processes for software and data engineering 

  • Able to advise on and implement best practices for devops across software and data engineering 

  • Some experience of data science methods and approaches

  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity

  • AWS services and tools

  • REST APIs, Microservices

Desirable

  • Experience of working with search methodologies - e.g. Elasticsearch (nice to have)

  • Experience with graph databases (nice to have)

Oleeo means a diverse collection of things that together, make something beautiful.

That’s how we see ourselves; a diverse team of technology and talent acquisition professionals who’ve come together to achieve something - well beautiful.

Our purpose (and passion) is to help companies attract, engage and hire amazing, diverse teams that can change the world for the better. We've done that by assembling a diverse and growing team of our own.

We are pioneers in recruitment software and our solutions are built to accelerate and improve the entire recruiting process, creating a more meaningful and transparent experience for recruiters and candidates.

We have been established for over 20 years with offices in London, New York and a presence in Asia, and are proud to list some of the world’s most talented organisations like The Institute of Cancer Research, Morgan Stanley, The Metropolitan Police, and Bank of America among our customers.

We have a terrific culture where people work hard in a friendly, equal opportunities environment with a casual dress code, and benefits including a discounted local gym membership, cycle to work scheme, as well as plenty of coffee shops nearby.

5 REASONS TO JOIN US

Behind the scenes
We love our product so much that we gave ourselves a Net Promoter Score of +52! While it’s complex and challenging on the inside, it’s simple and user friendly on the outside – that’s what makes it interesting and exciting. As one of the pioneers, we’re not starting from scratch, we’re building from great foundations.

Atmosphere

No matter where you are based, there’s a great feeling of camaraderie. When we’re at Oleeo we’re informal and approachable – our founder Charles is always available. There’s a good balance – we have high expectations of one another and trust each other to get the job done.

Exposure
It’s an exciting time to join us, we operate in the cloud HR technology market, a sector with amazing levels of innovation and growth. From the outset, you get to work with top tier customers who are the world leaders in their sectors and see an immediate impact where you are helping them shape the future of talent acquisition.

Fun
All that you’d expect and more – lots of social events, drinks every Friday, table tennis and pool tables, bring your dog to work days and there’s a discounted gym next door!

Opportunities
We pride ourselves on our candidate experience from the outset, not just for our customers, but also for our people. With growth comes opportunity - we have a diverse, ambitious team many of whom have progressed not just within the teams they originally joined, but beyond and globally. We believe in the potential of our people, we know this is the reality because people come back to us. So, come and join Oleeo - we’re more powerful together.

This Vacancy is closed to applications.